{"id":131066,"date":"2025-09-12T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131066\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:28:09","slug":"boxing-adam-azim-signs-contract-extension-with-ben-shaloms-boxxer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131066\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Adam Azim signs contract extension with Ben Shalom&#8217;s Boxxer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British boxer Adam Azim has signed a contract extension with promotional outfit Boxxer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old is unbeaten in 13 fights and has been described by Boxxer&#8217;s Ben Shalom as a \u201cgenerational talent\u201d, with the youngster hoping to fire himself into world title contention in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI know I have the right team around me to take me to the top,\u201d Azim said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI&#8217;m excited for this next chapter. I want to fight for world titles and test myself against the best fighters out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boxxer recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cr74z4jkez5o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a deal with the BBC<\/a> to broadcast a number of their events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Boxxer\u2019s broadcast deal with Sky Sports ended, some of their fighters are considering their options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Light-heavyweight Joshua Buatsi opted to join Frank Warren&#8217;s Queensberry in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Azim is considered one of the brightest talents in British boxing and has already captured the European and IBO light-welterweight titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Slough boxer has 10 stoppages in 13 fights and his most recent win was over the experienced Sergey Lipinets in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British boxer Adam Azim has signed a contract extension with promotional outfit Boxxer. The 23-year-old is unbeaten in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-131066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}